Patriarchal class solidarity is wild. A woman says "my husband and I try for a little physical intimacy every night, even if it doesn't lead to sex" and one zillion men mobilize on the husband's behalf to call her an abusive bitch and tell women to open their legs and lie back
Both the “sex work is empowering!!!” types of women and the “women have the world’s oldest profession at their disposal” men vastly overestimate how lucrative this kind of work is
Sometimes I think about how nineteenth century abolitionists tried to get people to boycott cotton produced by slave labor, and people were like, “Noooo…I love my fashionable clothes too much and cotton produced without slave labor is too expensive and too hard to find.”
Yeah.
This is exactly what "trust the science" looks like. Scientists updated the worst-case scenario because real-world emissions are tracking below RCP8.5's 2010-era assumptions of runaway coal expansion, primarily because wind and solar got cheap and climate policy started bending the curve. The new CMIP7 HIGH scenario published in Geoscientific Model Development still projects roughly 3°C of warming by 2100, twice the Paris target and a temperature Earth has not seen in roughly 3 million years.
The position being celebrated here amounts to: the climate policies worked well enough to retire the worst-case scenario, therefore we should kill the climate policies. That is hearing the smoke alarm shut off and concluding the fire department was a hoax.
Christ’s gospel was so radical, so contrary to the wisdom of the world, that people are still coping 2000 years later, insisting that he didn’t actually mean what he said.
This woman promised she wouldn't sell state houses, but she's sold 777 because she can't balance her budget.
John key promised not to increase GST but he did.
Treasury says increase GST - will she? She can't balance her budget!
National always makes you pay & punishes you.
people are so brainwashed by capitalism that they actually think a 4 day work week, abolishing tuition fees, and £15 minimum wage is actually a lot more evil than a 16 year old being payed £8 p/h, having to pay for 53K tuition fees and working more than you can handle